Instrument: Oboe

In this film, Timothy Rundle introduces his instrument - the oboe.

The Philharmonia is a world-class symphony orchestra, led by Principal Conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali.

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[rebdomine]

In high school, we had one oboist in my school who won a national award and played for an assembly. There was some squeaking, and the rest of the school snickered. I played alto sax at the time and the thought of playing a mouthpiece made of two reeds back to back was wild to me, still is. Woodwind nightmare-mode. I was impressed and wished everyone else understood how difficult that instrument was to play. It's like a classy, less dramatic clarinet. Clear and bold, but utterly unforgiving.

[tunnisus]

Oboe sounds like autumn to me. Kind of lonely sound color. It's good thing :)

[Knappa]

I’m hurt that I have not been approached by the Philharmonia to record a tutorial about my instrument.
The tambourine is extremely underrated.

[diaIga]

I play bassoon and I literally clicked on this without reading the title, and thought it was a clarinet for a split second.
Then I realized it was an oboe.
Its a very beautiful instrument, I love it a lot!

[tomatogiraffe]

I've been playing my oboe (named Obi Wan Kenoboe) for seven years now, going on eight, and I swear I STILL can't sound right. This demonstration is amazing!!

[miloslavvoboril]

I wouldn't mind to have neighbor, who plays an oboe. Such a nice sound.

[mistuh]

Me: sitting on the bus with my oboe

Random person: what instrument is that

Me: The oboe *as I take it out*


Random person: Is iT lIkE tHe FlUtE?

[jacobinternet]

No one:
Oboists: so let me explain how we make our reeds

[andreamyob]

Love these videos. The Philharmonia are my favourite orchestra because of this important work that they do to open up music to everyone.

[noacastillo]

I think Oboe is the most beautiful instrument.

[funkimonki]

I play the oboe and it was really cool at 2:28 to see the oboist’s choice of fingerings. If I am correct, they were using alternative fingerings to lower their pitch. I do this but I didn’t think professionals did this! Super cool close up!

[Orourkebanjo]

What a beautiful tone. I love this instrument so much. Oboe concertos are absolutely lovely.

[rem]

The people who thumbs downed don't know how hard we Obie players have to play the oboe!

[philharmonia_orchestra]

@Jake La Tierre: It's from Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky and can be heard during Act I, no. 9: Finale 

[slartibortfast]

baroque oboma is my favorite president

[charlesjoughin]

I am a flute and bassoonist so I get to work with a lot of oboe's and they are always the nicest people to be around I wish you all good luck and happy playing

[HighTen_Melanie]

This is fantastic! I have had a life long passion to own and play the oboe after 25 years of flute playing. I'm teaching myself and it is a wonderful instrument. I've just started playing the oboe at my local church. Buffet Crampon Oboe :-)

[Ama-Elaini]

To me, this sounds incredibly soulful.

[willowtheduck]

There only 2 oboes at our school and I’m proudly one of them 😌

Edit: I quit oboe a year ago and now I play flute 😎 yuh

[GrotrianSeiler]

Yes, his demo at the end is quite beautiful.